About Out-of-Place Upgrade

For out-of-place upgrade, you prepare the machines as per the current certification matrix, and then install the binaries in a new Oracle home directory.

Oracle recommends out-of-place upgrade for the following cases:

• If you want to upgrade from Oracle BI Applications 11.1.1.10.2 and prior releases to Oracle BI Applications 11.1.1.10.3 PS4 (Upgrade from using Oracle Fusion Middleware Infrastructure 11g to using the latest Oracle Fusion Middleware Infrastructure 12c).
• If you want to upgrade from Oracle BI Applications 11.1.1.10.3 to Oracle BI Applications 11.1.1.10.3 PS4 to use the Oracle Autonomous Transaction Processing (ATP) Database.

Complete these tasks to perform an out-of-place upgrade:

1. Read the certification document.
2. Prepare the machines for the application and database servers.
3. Install the following prerequisite platforms. See the instructions in Install and Configure Oracle BI Applications.
   • Oracle WebLogic Server
   • Oracle Analytics Server
   • Oracle Data Integrator
   • Repository Creation Utility for Business Intelligence
4. Run the Oracle BI Applications installer:
   1. Install Oracle BI Applications.
   2. Install the Repository Creation Utility for Oracle BI Applications.
   3. Apply the Oracle Fusion Middleware Platform patches.
5. Configure Oracle BI Applications by enabling the offerings using Oracle BI Applications Configuration Manager (BIACM).
6. Register the source using Oracle BI Applications Configuration Manager.
7. Recreate the customizations in Oracle Data Integrator.
8. Deploy the custom changes of the Oracle Data Integrator model on the warehouse schema.
9. Move the Oracle BI Applications Configuration Manager customizations to the new environment.
10. Move the Oracle BI customizations to the new environment.
11. Generate and run load plans using Oracle BI Applications Configuration Manager.